Cooking involves History Read the HISTORY OF PIZZA Below

Pizza has been pleasing taste buds for a very long time. In prehistoric times, people baked large pieces of bread on flat cooking stones. Later, in Italy, these flat pieces of bread were spiced up with herbs and called focaccia bread. Italians still love to eat focaccia as an appetizer or snack. This snack was handy because you did not need utensils and it could be seasoned with extra scraps of food and fresh produce.When Europeans came to the New World, they were introduced to tomatoes, which they then took back to their home countries. The people of Naples, Italy were the first to put tomatoes on focaccia bread. People didn't want to use tomatoes at first because they thought this delicious red fruit was poisonous! The world's first pizzeria, Port' Alba, opened in 1830. Pizzas were baked in an oven lined with lava from a local volcano! The first pizza delivery occurred in 1889 when an Italian restaurant owner was asked to create a special dish for the guest of honor, Queen Margherita Terea Giovanni. He wanted to include the colors of the Italian flag in his dish to honor the queen, so he added tomatoes (red), mozzarella cheese (white), and basil (green) to focaccia bread. The restaurant owner named this meal the Margherita Pizza, using part of the guest of honor's name along with part of the name of his restaurant Pietro II Pizzaiolo. The pizza was delivered to the palace because the Queen did not want to go all the way to the restaurant!

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE RECIPE

INGREDIENTS:
250 g all-purpose flour 100 g white sugar teaspoon baking soda 1 Tablespoon vanilla teaspoon salt extract 170 g unsalted butter, 1 egg melted 1 egg yolk 220 g packed brown sugar335 g semisweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat the oven to 165 degrees C. Grease baking sheets or line with parchment paper. 2. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. 3. In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon. Drop cookie dough in heaping spoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheets. Cookies should be about 7 centimetres apart. 4. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted. Cool on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

Cooking Involves Math!

UK Cooking Temperatures are in Celsius or Gas Marks. If you find a recipe from another country that has Fahrenheit temperatures, you will need to Convert for your Oven settings.

Fahrenheit Celsius Gas Mark Description Very Slow 250 F 120 C Slow 275 F 140 C 1 Slow 300 F 150 C 2 Moderate 325 F 160 C 3 Moderate 350 F 180 C 4 Moderately Hot 375 F 190 C 5 Moderately Hot 400 F 200 C 6 Hot 425 F 220 C 7 Hot 450 F 230 C 8 Very Hot 475 F 240 C 9 BE SURE TO PICK UP YOUR COOKING CONVERSION MAGNET!